Our latest leg was five days in Rochester, New York, as we head west. We were an hour and a half away from Niagara Falls, so we went there for lunch one day (as well as a good bit of walking around)! Why just lunch? I (Chuck) had a lot of work this week, so that's the...

We've always wanted to visit Novia Scotia. While we had envisioned a week in a waterfront hotel, the rates in NS are insane. So, while staying in Saint John, just across the Bay of Fundy from Novia Scotia, we took one day to visit Digby, Nova Scotia. To drive to Nova...

We named our trip "Roaming North America" instead of "Roaming the United States" because we were hoping we'd get some time in Canada and maybe Mexico. Well, three months in and we had a full week in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The drive from Bangor, Maine to...

We fulfilled a dream and visited Derry Bangor, Maine. Bangor is the inspiration for many of the books by our favorite author, Stephen King. So we visited several locations that were either in his films or inspiration for his books (see Pet Sematary and It). We...

Maine is turning out to be an amazing destination. Ultimately, we will have three posts of our two weeks here. For this post, we were still staying in Auburn. We spent one day a half hour away in Portland, ME. A major tourist destination, we expected it to be similar...

Today is Wednesday and we arrived in Auburn, Maine, on Sunday evening. In two short days, we've had a lot of fun and checked off one item on Sharon's bucket list. First, here is what is outside our room at our hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn:This is the Great...

After Rhode Island, we drove to Albany to stay for a week. But the hotel was terrible, so we drove to a new hotel in Lake George. It was rainy the whole time, and the smoke from Canada was so strong it was hard to see mountains nearby. So we only got a few pics. Most...

From New Jersey, we drove to Acton, Massachusetts. Why Acton? Because that's where my brother and sister-in-law live. It has been more than a decade since we've seen each other. So we spent almost two weeks there. We visited historic Concord, historic Salem, and...

After our New Jersey stay (NYC and Philadelphia), we spent 2 weeks visiting family in Massachusetts. We did a lot during that time, so it's taking me a long time to curate and edit photos. In the mean time, our next destination was Rhode Island. Rhode Island is one of...

It's been a while since I've posted a travel update. We stopped by my brother's house for a couple weeks and got lazy. After New York City, we visited Philadelphia. It was an extremely hot day, but sunny. We found Philly quite difficult to drive around in. If we had...

The last we visited New York City was a couple years after 9/11. Back then, there were heavily-armored cops on every corner. With this trip, we didn't notice any police other than traffic cops. I did a good bit of research on how to get to the city without driving...

Washington, DC. We could have spent a week or more visiting museums and historic sites. Instead, we took one day and did a "hop on hop off" bus tour. With me working, still, it's hard to find time to do fun stuff at each destination without staying for two or more...

Normally I would save this little visit for a longer post about the area we're in now. However, this little town was so perfect, so quaint, so beautiful, I had to give it its own post. We stumbled upon Occoquan. We did a search for "historic near me" in Google, and it...

Sorry it's taking a long time to post. Turns out moving from hotel to hotel, while trying to enjoy each destination, while working, is quite time consuming and exhausting. This post covers our week in Virginia Beach, of course mostly photos.  The first thing we...

If you're a science geek at all, or enjoy movies with huge radio telescopes, this is a must-visit. We did the bus tour, which takes you right up to the telescope. No phones allowed, so no photos. If you go, bring a film camera or buy one at their gift shop before the...

What an amazing find here in the middle of nowhere. Okay, there's a whole town here, but still... The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum has a 160 year history that you can read about if you'd like. We didn't see any ghosts, as I'd hoped. But the 1 1/2 hour tour went on...

Getting settled into a new lifestyle takes time. We're not even close. But we had to have fun or we'd miss the whole point of this adventure. On Wednesday, we went to downtown Greenville, SC. Amazingly, there's a huge, beautiful park right in the middle of the city....

The trip has officially begun. Yesterday was our final day with a home base. It's a strange feeling, sort of unmoored, disconnected, free-floating. Not a bad feeling, just a unique feeling. We made our final trip to Goodwill, as well as one final trip to the public...